Medical Science

Hi there, I am new to the forum. I came searching for information about Genetic testing. I am new to this whole topic. Please help. I am 24 years old. A guy proposed to marry me. The thing is, he is my second cousin. I heard/read about the discouragement for cousin marriages by some experts. I am kindda worried, and until this day, I did not accept or decline the guy's proposal. I don't know what to do. What I know is that I want to do the right thing which will benefit everyone (specifically speaking, the offspring). My parents are first cousins. I have 2 sisters who don't have the best mental health condition; without going into lots of details about my sisters…

I want to find out the past National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants a few professors have received, the reasons for receiving, what kind of things they wrote up to get said grants, how much money, and maybe other things that I can't think of right now. How do I go about this? It seems with the National Science Foundation (NSF), I can easily look into this stuff. I can't find out how to do the same with the NIH. How do I do it?

I think it's caffeine but it may not be. When ever i drink either of these beverages they cause me to be hungry. Do these drinks actually cause this or could it be something else? Thanks

Hello, I am 9th grade biology student working on a presentation on the heart. I was wondering if you guys could help me understand the basic mechnics of the heart. I also have to talk about what happens when an arterial valve fails and what arythmia is. I am trying to find resources online, so if you guys have any good websites it would be awesome if you could post them here! And last thing, could you guys just describe in your own simple words? Thanks so much!

My mother has been going blind over the past two years due to problems associated with age and diabetes. She is completely blind in one eye, and within the past couple of weeks her vision sometimes drops to almost zero in the other eye. She now has regular hallucinations, usually of people, little girls in particular, as well as flowers and other things she is familiar with. Doesn't matter if her eyes are open or closed. The hallucinations of the little girls are particularly vivid. She can tell me what they are doing, what they are wearing, and they often come up and pat her on her hand. She cannot feel the hand patting or hear them; only the visual hallucinatio…

We have a doctor near our place who can tell you about your disease by just checking you pulse. The amazing part is that he is always accurate (he will look for cuts or something in case of external allergy or something). Is such a system of treatment scientifically possible? How can pulse rate tell what disease you are suffering from?

Do you know something about this topic? Nanotechnologists have created a new structure which can effectively kill cancer cells without doing damage to normal (healthy) human cells. Basically, the structure is made of diamond piece and, inter alia, Y proteins who are competitive to those one who are placed on cancer cells. You know that chemotherapy normally kills healthy cells and organism have to recover them, but this process is usually strenuous. I would like to know more about this and also how those diamonds would be produced? Thanks

Some studies & common sense can tell that every generation is getting slightly taller due to improving lifestyles over time. But what worries me about this quick almost man-made evolution is that if we get really tall really quick could there be consequences? based on the science that as you increase a volume, its weight increases more than its strength, what if humans increase volume over time so quickly that our weight is too much for our strength to overcome and people essentially become weaker and weaker? the science of increasing volume states that humans are getting weaker every generation. Although no significant evidence suggests this, I theorize its happ…

EDIT: My apologies mods, just realized there was a "Medical science" section, could you please move this post at your convenience? The following post in incredibly long, I know, but please, bear with me. I started being sick the Sunday before last; it started out as a barely perceptible sore throat which, over the next 24 hours, developed into a more serious one, accompanied by swollen lymph nodes. I went to have throat, blood and urine samples taken the next day, as I was suspicious of mono (my girlfriend contracted mono about a month ago and to be frank we didn't give much attention to the fact that it's transmitted by saliva. I was willing to take the risk, pa…

I was wondering if anybody knew what the general consensus was on the separation of experience and personality, or if there even is one? For example, I have heard of people who have had total memory loss that they have not recovered from, and they end up being radically different people following that. This could be seen as evidence that the loss of memory is equivalent to the loss of personality, but it could also just be that whatever caused the initial memory loss was also responsible for other damage to the brain. This is not something you can ethically experiment with of course! Let's say, for example, it were possible for an exact copy of me to be made and then …

Still experimental, but it works. Many of you likely understand this process completely, but to me it is a fascinating marvel of science. A 3 minutes video you will want to see. http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/the_skin_gun

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Do a simple search in youtube or google video and type 'psychiatry'. Listen to the amount of negative feedback coming from REAL notable doctors. Knowing people who have been through the system and have nothing positive come out of it, it makes these doctors sound right. There are no cures, just treatment with dangerous mind altering medications. That doesn't sound like science does it? Its 2011 and this is the best we have?

Nice video on some of the biotechnology and bioengineering and how that will improve medicine and treatment and allow people to live longer . Biotech Revolution 1 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olNA4axfLCc&feature=related Note Marat did you even watch part 2 of the video what they are going to do with that information? Biotech Revolution 2 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vihla-2CJ4I&feature=related

Can the quality of health care in the US be increased by lowering the qualification requirements to provide medical care? It might seem counter-intuitive at first, but not if you think through it carefully. Of course, a better doctor would provide better treatment. However, a doctor is limited in the number of patients he can treat, and furthermore even having to wait for treatment can exacerbate any harm. Furthermore, with a shortage of doctors it becomes necessary to ration out care or to increase the price to the point where people forgo treatment due to the price. Thus, conditions could worsen or go untreated altogether. At some point, even if the fewer doctors can pr…

so i have an odd question... what would happen if you injected mercury into your body? now im sure the results will vary quite a bit depending on where the injection was and how much was injected. so if this were fatal what would be the actual mode of death be?

Hallo guys i want to know some informations about passive filtration of drugs. i didnt find any infos until know. what do you know about that Thanx!

I thought Scheerer's phenomenon was is the appearance of tiny bright dots moving quickly along when looking into blue light or very bright out side? And visual snow is like snow like appearance does not matter if it is bright or not.There is no cure for Scheerer's phenomenon and visual snow yet . The dots are due to the white blood cells that move in the capillaries in front of the retina from what I understand. my last question I thought digestive tract was 5 to 8 hours ? For past 3 days I got a upset stomach 2 hours after eating the same food. I thought 2 or 3 hours the food would not even be in the small intestine yet that lone the bigger intestine ?

Well first things first I'm new so hi to everyone. I was reading about Stem Cells and something came to mind and I was wondering what the posibilites were with this. So when it comes to cloning we are able to do more and more. I was just simply wondering if it would ever be possible to be able to clone stem cells from Embryonic Cells. If that was possible wouldn't that end all the controversy and make things much easier in the fight to legalize them (I'm unbiased one way or the other).

I am 17 weeks pregnant and recently got abnormal results on an MSAFP. They were low and indicated the I had a 1 in 149 chance of having a baby with Down Syndrome. (I have a healthy three-year-old son and no other risk factors.) Although the ultrasound revealed nothing abnormal, we decided to have amniocenticis. Since I had the test I have not been able to function. I can't sleep, I have been vomiting frequently and when I do sleep I'm having constant nightmares. I have lost five pounds and I'm concerned about the health of my baby. I have tried relaxation techniques, focusing on positives, and keeping as busy as possible. Nothing is helping. I am almost paralyzed with fea…

I have a rare auto immune diseas (Microscopic Polyangitis), caused small intestine to have two lots of surgery, arthritis, premature osteoporosis, heart murmur, kidney failure and consequent kidney transplant......I would like to leave my shell to medical science - what do I have to do to achieve this? Just tell my Doctor, or is there something else I have to do? I am certin it will be very useful - medical teams get very excited qand interested when they have to take care of me!! Any ideas

For the past 14 months, I have had a succession of chiropractic interns trying to fix the mess that the first one made. We are finally starting to wrap that up. I would have gone to a professional to get it fixed, but I was really leery of all the leeches that don't want to fix things right, don't know how to, and those that want to charge a gazillion dollars to be that touch above and still don't know everything that the students know, besides the fact that the pain kind of interferes with my cognitive processes sometimes since all of the nerves are way up near my neck. For the previous ten years, I was caught up in their vicious circles of pain that they actuall…

Despite the fact that diagnostic technology has greatly improved over the last 60 years and the percentage of the population smoking cigarettes -- a major cause of lung cancer -- has vastly declined during that same period, in the United States in 1950 18,000 people died of lung cancer, while in 2004 in the U.S. 160,000 people died of lung cancer. Since the U.S. population approximately doubled during that period, that means that the cancer death rate has more than quadrupled over that period. Five year survival rate for those diagnosed with lung cancer has remained stable for the last 20 years, and even for other cancers, the five year survival rate has just edged up b…

Could lactic acid be responsible for increase telomerase activity in some forms of cancer? If so could you point me towards some scholarly articles.

Hi there! I want to share a new live and free continuing medical education event in Chicago I came across yesterday when I was searching for new CME activities. The event is called Acute Coronary Syndrome: Bridging the Gaps in Care and it’s for all clinical cardiologists, interventional cardiologists, hospitalists and emergency department physicians. It looks to be an exciting and event! Registration is open at http://www.provaeducation.com/acs